On the semiadditivity of the capacities associated with signed vector valued Riesz kernels (Q2844724)

The author shows the semiadditivity of the capacities \(\gamma_\alpha\) associated with the signed vector valued Riesz kernels \(x/|x|^{1+\alpha}\) in \({\mathbb R}^n,\) \(0<\alpha<n.\) If \(E\subset {\mathbb R}^n\) is a compact set, then \(\gamma_\alpha=\sup|\langle T,1 \rangle|\) where the supremum is taken over all distributions compactly supported on \(E.\) Restricting the definition to distributions \(T\) given by a positive Radon measure, it is obtained that \(\gamma_{\alpha,+}(E)\leq \gamma_\alpha(E).\) It is furthermore proved that NEWLINE\[NEWLINE \gamma_{\alpha}(E)\leq C \gamma_{\alpha,+}(E) NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with absolute constant \(C>0.\)